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Monday, October 08, 2012

2012

Winder police are expecting to charge 31-year-old twin brothers in connection with the discovery of a body found buried and encased in concrete at their father's home on Sixth Avenue in the city, Winder Police Chief Dennis Dorsey said Monday night.

CASPER, Wyo. - Donna Woodcock first noticed the lump when she got out of the shower and lifted her arm to comb her hair.
She had yearly mammograms, but now, in the bathroom mirror, her left breast looked so strange.
Doctors confirmed breast cancer.

When women are first diagnosed with breast cancer, they quickly become overwhelmed because they feel a need to become experts about medicine, surgery, chemotherapy, reconstruction and all of the other things that come with breast cancer treatment.

Mirapex is a medicine prescribed for Parkinson's disease and restless leg syndrome. I read online that this medication can promote compulsive behaviors such as shopping, porn, sex, gambling and eating.

Community Connection of Northeast Georgia: Donations of underwear and long johns, wash cloths, white socks, razors, scarves, toothpaste, coats, deodorant, Emory boards and toenail clippers, gloves, and more to be distributed during the annual Project Homeless Connect homeless resource fair on Nov. 16. All items need to be dropped off at the Salvation Army on Hawthorne Avenue.

The Athens Nurses Clinic recently won a $27,215 grant from the American Cancer Society to provide free screening and diagnostic mammograms and breast health education to women in Athens and Northeast Georgia.

ATLANTA — Dick Pettys, a longtime political reporter for The Associated Press who was a fixture at the Georgia state Capitol for more than three decades and a well-respected mentor to other journalists, died Monday. He was 66.

Georgia Options, a nonprofit organization that provides support to adults with developmental disabilities, will celebrate its 20th birthday from 1-5 p.m. today at its headquarters at 160 Ben Burton Road in Bogart.

Athens-Clarke police made four robbery arrests over the weekend, two of which stemmed from three separate robberies early Sunday. Two of the three Sunday robberies were committed by a man armed with a knife, police said.

McLEAN, Va. — Dish and Gannett say they have reached an agreement in a fee dispute that had threatened to leave more than 2 million Dish subscribers in 19 cities without access to local television stations owned by Gannett.

ATLANTA — Eleven months after Occupy Atlanta members clashed with police in riot gear during a tense showdown in an Atlanta park, they're now drawing support from police officers in their efforts to help a longtime detective avoid losing her home to foreclosure.

NEW YORK — Two scientists from different generations won the Nobel Prize in medicine Monday for the groundbreaking discovery that cells in the body can be reprogrammed into completely different kinds, work that reflects the mechanism behind cloning and offers an alternative to using embryonic stem cells.

DALLAS — A Dallas woman who super-glued her 2-year-old daughter's hands to a wall also beat the girl so badly that she suffered bleeding on her brain, a doctor testified Monday during the mother's sentencing hearing.

CARACAS, Venezuela — During his re-election campaign, President Hugo Chavez promised to deepen the "21st century socialism" that has meant an ever-greater state role in the economy. That message won him a surprising 11-percentage point win in what many had thought would be a tight race.

BEIRUT — Syria's cross-border attacks on Turkey in the past week look increasingly like they could be an intentional escalation meant to send a clear message to Ankara and beyond, that the crisis is simply too explosive to risk foreign military intervention.

WASHINGTON — As the White House race shows signs of tightening nationally, President Barack Obama's campaign is banking on a massive get-out-the-vote operation and state-by-state shades of economic improvement to maintain its apparent polling edge in battlegrounds from Ohio to Virginia.

PHILADELPHIA — A man was charged in connection with a large brawl that broke out among people attending two different wedding receptions in downtown Philadelphia during the weekend, police said Monday.

COVINGTON, Ky. — A former cheerleader for the Cincinnati Bengals pleaded guilty Monday to having sex with a 17-year-old student while she was a teacher at northern Kentucky high school, a move that will allow her to avoid time in jail.

CARACAS, Venezuela — President Hugo Chavez put to rest any doubts about his masterful political touch in winning a third consecutive six-year term after a bitterly fought race against a youthful rival who has galvanized Venezuela's opposition.

CHARTER FORUM: Just in case you haven't read it elsewhere in the newspaper, the Clarke Central High School Parent-Teacher-Student Organization is hosting a forum on the proposed charter school amendment at 7 tonight in the school's Mell Auditorium.

Midway through the season, Georgia's defense hasn't produced like expected. The Bulldogs, No. 5 nationally last season in total defense, rank in the bottom half of the Southeastern Conference in every major statistical category.